THE historic all-Queensland NRL decider has created an unprecedented demand for the sunshine state’s most famous brew, forcing ANZ Stadium staff to reconfigure its 288 beer taps and wheel in 740 kegs of XXXX Gold.

As many as 30,000 Queenslanders will flood across the border to see the Brisbane Broncos and the North Queensland Cowboys battle it out for NRL supremacy in front of a full house of more than 80,000 at ANZ Stadium.

With the bureau predicting a Queensland-like 32C for Sydney Olympic Park on Sunday, the stadium caterers expect to sell a whopping 120,000 cups of beer on the day.

As an NZ'er I shouldn't really be telling you this but, well, when Lion Nathan brought Castlemaine there was an added extra secret ingredient* put into XXXX. Of course Lion Nathan itself was then sold to the Japanese so there are now two** secret ingredients. *ball-bag sweat from NPC rugby teams **left overs from bukkake film shoots